Word: manhunt
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...Manhunt. But even the limited war production so far had brought a marked increase in the demand for workers. In Long Beach, Cal., Douglas Aircraft got an $8,000,000 order to recondition about 200 B-26 bombers, began hiring an additional 1,500 men. In San Diego, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft's appeal for 3,000 additional workers brought a block-long line of applicants to its gates...
...editor (Macdonald Carey), a newcomer seeking an ivory tower after a stormy career as a foreign correspondent, is reluctant to mix in political controversy. But as his conscience is needled by a reporter (Gail Russell) for a Mexican-American weekly, he saves the youth's life during a manhunt, begins to crusade for him, and narrowly averts a lynching at the town jail...
...coincidence and saddled with a hand-me-down musical score, its imperfections seem trivial alongside its rough-hewn virtues. Using unvarnished photography on the streets, interiors and people of real California towns, Director Joseph Losey has given the picture a startling look of reality. For the setting of his manhunt's climax, he takes imaginative advantage of the stony, rolling wastes of a vast gold-dredging field. His mob scenes crackle with a spontaneous movement and raw vitality usually found only in bang-up newsreel footage...
...Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
...host of police was swarming over Dillon Field House as the varsity concluded practice shortly after 6 p.m., but it was doghunt, and not a manhunt, in which they were involved...